Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!amdahl!fai!cerebus!ronc
From: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (sysadm)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Flat Displays and Portable Computers
Message-ID: <38@cerebus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 17:06:45 EST
Article-I.D.: cerebus.38
Posted: Thu Jan 15 17:06:45 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 22:48:21 EST
References: <1191@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <191@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (sysadm)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
Lines: 31

In article <191@its63b.ed.ac.uk> bob@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) writes:
>Make it with a touch sensitive screen, Throw away the
>keyboard and the pointer (mouse), and use a stick for making
>notes on the screen. [...]
>
>All the advantages of a real bit of paper plus the computer
>power of one of todays bit-mapped workstations with a mouse.
>It gives a whole new meaning to writing a program.
>	Bob.

Ickkk!  I have a small problem with this.  I can not write.
I can at best print slowly and painfully.  I got straight F's
in penmanship all throughout school.  However, (probably as
compensation) I can type at peaks of 120 WPM on a good keyboard.
The very idea of having to scrawl on a calculator with a stick
as an entry method fills me with the creeping horrors.

How about voice entry?  A(n) (infrared remote?) throat mike so
you could subvocalize the commands?  Voice would be faster than
typing, and certainly faster than writing(!).

Gawd, let's stick to menu selections for touch sensitive screens.

			Ron
-- 

	Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
	seismo!amdahl!fai!cerebus!ronc  -or-   ihnp4!pesnta!fai!cerebus!ronc

	"Down, boy"
			"Woof"